Woocommerce ULRs & SEO
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My company is in the process of converting from a .net site to a wordpress site using Woocommerce. We are #1 in Google SEO ranking and have spent a lot of time getting to this point. My currents URL is /smithco.com/rotating-widgetsbecause of the way wordpress works - I'm going to have /product/ in the URL in the new siteThew new URL will be/smithco.com/product/rotating-widgetsShould I be worried about this ?thanks in advance
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Well, you’re definitely going to lose your rankings if URLs are changed. Luckily, there’s such thing as 301 SEO redirects that let Google know your pages are being permanently moved to another addresses. As the result, your SEO rankings won’t be affected, even though URL structures will be altered (in your case by adding /product/ part).
If you’re interested in automated migration of your store, I’d recommend you using Cart2Cart. For a moderate additional price, it allows to migrate 301 SEO URLs of categories and products, as well as all your products, customers, orders, review etc automatically, securely and swiftly.
Good luck!
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This plugin (http://litextension.com/seo-urls-migrations-plugins/woocommerce-seo-urls-plugin.html) perhaps helps to keep seo urls after converting from old cart to new site.
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There's nothing to worry about in regards to having /product/ in the new URLs. However (with any site upgrade) you need to be sure to individually 301 redirect all the old pages to the matching new pages. Do you have a plan in place for that?
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